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"I remember what Old Joe Hun said when arguing with Adrian: that mental states can be inferred from actions. That's in history-Henry VIII and all that. Whereas in the private life, I think the converse is true: that you can infer past actions from current mental states."
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"People with victim mentality attracts people in their lives that tease them, abuse them and even bully them instead of building mutually benefitting relationships."
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Personal Development
"God is not coming to fix any nation. The most he could do is to raise up a man or a woman who would take responsibility to fix the nation."
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"There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question."
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"The tragedy of our age is that a greater percentage of people living today are only living in the dream world."
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Personal Development
"Intuition is beyond the scope of our mind, it is surprising, but it is the fact of life."
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"You hear with your ears, but you listen with an open mind."
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"I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our own actions on ourselves. We smile and it smiles back to us, we frown and it frowns to us. How I wish it shows us the reflections of the effects of our actions on other people as well so that we will be conscious!"
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"Are you in love with your idea more than your reality? Change that."
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"You have to look closely to see clearly."
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"Be careful of fake faces, the most honest the most evil."
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"Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't."
Life
"How weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your life. And I remain deeply attached to the physical book and the physical bookshop."
Literature
"How do we seize the past? Can we ever do so? When I was a medical student some pranksters at the end-of-the-term dance released into the hall a piglet which had been smeared with grease. It squirmed between legs, evaded capture, squealed a lot. People fell over trying to grasp it, and were made to look ridiculous in the process. The past often seems to behave like that piglet."
Memory
"Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior."
Life
"Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical."
Philosophy
"Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?"
Observation
"Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death."
Philosophy
"Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?"
Philosophy
"History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us."
History
"One of the things he had learned in life, and which he hoped he could rely on, was that a greater pain drives out a lesser one. A strained muscle disappears before toothache, toothache disappears before a crushed finger. He hoped - it was his only hope now - that the pain of cancer, the pain of dying , would drive out the pains of love. It did not seem likely."
Resilience
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